Can anyone tell me how to recover my BIOS ? - MSI K7T TURBO LE

[ckälvin]

I flashed my bios to the custom bios and I'm using Duron 650. After I've flashed it, the board doesnt boot at all anymore and I can't even flash it back to the original bios. Everytime it boots, it just hangs there with the diagnostic LED showing Red-Green-Green- Red. Can anyone here please help me and let me know what I should do ?

 

[Gunjaa]

Your s*#t outta luck dude... only thing u can do is find another board of same kind that dont work and grab its bios rom chip.
(by the way, did you clear cmos when u installed new bios ??, if not do it, might be the problem..)

 

[App]

Yes, try to clear the CMOS first by means of that green jumper. Do not forget to put it back in it's original setting before trying to boot up.
If it appears the BIOS is dead, try to ask a new BIOS chip from MSI. Good luck.

 

[TeuffelHunden]

I've heard of people flashing the board with the bios from a working board...but I've never done it.
I agree with Gunjaa. If it won't even boot, how can you get the new bios on it??

 

[thefly]

Reset the bios with the jumper on the motherboard.

If that doesn't work, then try removing the battery for and hour or so and see it that'll bring it around.

sounds like a nasty case. Did the bios update complete??

I did one with an old asus board and after the bios update the machine wouldn't boot from the hard drive. However it would boot from the A: drive. I had saved the old bios on diskette before updating. So, after replacing the new nonfunctional bios with the old one the machine booted again.

Strange.

 

[SleepyKat]

oooohh, I done this before...accidentally while in Windows...took a bit of effort to recover. If you can get hold of a good BIOS from a older MB swap it and bring your system back up to A: with floppy in drive. Carefully with a chip extractor (nonmetallic as metallic can short the chip) extract the chip out and insert yours back in or if you can keep the new chip, leave it there. Now reflash with the proper BIOS update, not the custom. MSI has a SW that automatically updates their BIOS. It comes with the MB. If you do not want to do a hot swap and have a eeprom burner & the working chip at hand, you can do it that way. Some of the older VGA cards have similar chip and you can use those. Hopes this helps.

 

[AKDUDE]

I think the easy thing to do, especially if you don't have the resources mentioned above, is to just get a new bios chip from MSI.

Im sure they deal with this problem all day long.
AKDUDE

 

[ckälvin]

I didnt clear the CMOS before I flashed it. Could that be the problem ?. I used the command line, awdf789 /nbl. Anyway, what is the right way to do it ?. Can someone tell me step by step on how to flash my BIOS correctly ?. Could it be a possibility as well that my Duron 650 is too old and that the custom BIOS doesnt support it ?.